The Tech Oversight Report: Unsealed court documents show teen addiction was Big Tech's "Top Priority"

Exhibit 71: Internal slides titled "Market Landscape Review: Teen Opportunity Cost and Lifetime Value," September 6, 2018

Infamously state that "The lifetime value of a 13 y/o teen is roughly $270 per teen."

Exhibit 75: Slides titled "Teen Mental Health: Creatures of Habit," August/September 2019

Results of a study on teen mental health. Toplines include the following:

"Teens can’t switch off from Instagram even if they want to"

"Teens talk of Instagram in terms of an ‘addicts narrative’ spending too much time indulging in a compulsive behaviour that they know is negative but feel powerless to resist."

Exhibit 74: Message exchange, September 10, 2020

Employee message exchange comparing Instagram to drugs and slot machines. "Oh my gosh yall IG is a drug" "Lol, I mean , all social media. We’re basically pushers"

https://techoversight.org/2026/01/25/top-report-mdl-jan-25/

> It’s the first time the Commission has set out its stance on the design of a social media platform under its Digital Services Act […] This is the first time a legal standard on addictive design has been set globally (це лукавство, але окей)

> TikTok should change the way it recommends content to users and implement screen time breaks, […], as well as disable the feature of infinite scrolling.

> TikTok has been under investigation over the addictiveness of its platform since February 2024, and was already accused of breaking rules over transparency in May 2025. Other parts of the investigation around age verification and its recommender system are still ongoing.

https://www.politico.eu/article/eu-signals-tiktoks-addictive-design-is-illegal/

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Zones of Trust Model

(Стаття про сегментацію інформаційно-комунікаційної інфраструктури на зони за рівнем довіри)

https://www.securitytruth.online/post/zones-of-trust

awesome-free-software — це підбірка безкоштовного та вільного ПЗ

У репозиторії можна знайти категорії програм на будь-який смак і колір: програми для запису подкастів, обробки голосу, створення музики або ж месенджери, поштові клієнти та програми для роботи з графікою, тощо.

> https://github.com/johnjago/awesome-free-software

Ladies, gentlemen, esteemed guests!
It is with a heavy heart that I must announce that the brightest scholars of our age have, once again, corroborated the unfortunate truth: phone = bad.